Quotes About Comparison

You have no idea how big the other fellow's troubles are.

Men are all the same. They always think that something they are going to get is better than what they have got.

Beggars do not envy millionaires, though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful.

Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.

For years I stopped reading beauty magazines because I couldn't look at one without wanting to blow my brains out. How can those women look so good?

The problem with beauty is that it's like being born rich and getting poorer.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

I murmured because I had no shoes, until I met man who had no feet.

Comparison, more than reality, makes men happy or wretched.

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter, for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

If we only wanted to be happy it would be easy; but we want to be happier than other people, which is almost always difficult, since we think them happier than they are.

I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

Every horse thinks his own pack heaviest.

To think well of every other man's condition, and to dislike our own, is one of the misfortunes of human nature.

Other people's eggs have two yolks.

No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought; no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought.

Envy is an insult to oneself.

Envy eats nothing but its own heart.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.

Jealousy is an inner consciousness of one's own inferiority. It is a mental cancer.